Safety-pocket.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC In. IxYONS, 0F SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR T0 JOSEPH LEIDER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

SAFETY-POCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application ied October 31, 1910.

Patented May 30, 1911.

seriai No. 589,924.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ISAAC L. LYoNs, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Safety-Pockets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pockets for garments, and is especially designed to provide a safety appliance for such pockets, whereby access to the pockets from the outside is rendered diiicult, and whereby if the garment be accidentally reversed, the contents would be prevented from escaping.

The invention consists in the combination of parts, and details of construction which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view with a portion broken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical section showing my device. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the strip.

As shown in the drawings, A represents the portion of a garment having a pocket opening made at 2.

3 is the pocket which is to be fixed to the inside of the garment, and to which access may be had through the opening 2. This pocket is closed at the bottom as usual, and at the top is curved over as at 3, and the downturned edge is brought down and st-itched to the upper edge of the pocket opening, as shown at 4. Interior to this downturned edge of the pocket is a strip 5, the lower edge of which extends below the pocket opening 2, and is stitched through the seam at the lower edge of the pocket opening, and has the upturned edge of the inner edge of the pocket itself stitched thereto, as shown at 6. It will thus be seen that the lower edge of the strip 5 is connected firmly to the seam at the lower edge of the pocket opening and to the inner edge of the pocket itself. The upper edge of this strip 5 extends upward inside of the downturned upper portion of the pocket itself, thus leaving a space between itself and this pocket, so that access to the pocket may be obtained through the pocket opening 2, only by first passing up over the edge of the strip 5, and then down into the pocket as indicated by the arrow.

If the pocket is to carry a watch having a chain or fob, the edge of the strip 5 may have a depression made in it, as shown at 7, for the passage of the chain.

By reason of the fold 3 at the upper part of the pocket and which extends above the upper edge of the strip 5, it will be seen that it' the garment be inverted its contents will be prevented from passing through the opening 2, by reason of the over-lap of the strip 5, and will be received into the fold at 3, thus preventing loss in this manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent isl. The combination with a garment hav ing a pocket opening, of a pocket closed at bottom and top, the inner side of said pocket extending upwardly past the pocket opening and having its top portionturned toward the opening and folded down with its outer edge stitched above contiguous to the upper part of said opening, a strip of material having its lower edge stitched to the garment below the pocket opening and to which the upturned lower edge of the pocket is also stitched, said strip extending upwardly within the downturned portion of the pocket and above the pocket opening and having its upper edge recessed to form a depressed receiver for a watch chain.

2. The combination with a garment having a pocket opening, a safety pocket having a strip extending upwardly so that its upper edge is located above said opening and within the upper closed portion of the pocket, said strip having its edge recessed to form a depressed receiver for a watch chain.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ISAAC L. LYONS. Witnesses G. I-I. STRONG, JOHN I-I. HERRING.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. C. 

